The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c8.s4.5

c8.s4.5

Garuḍa presides above the shrine door, where he grasps, in his two hands, the serpent tails of nāgas whose upturned human bodies are a little way down the jambs on either side. The doorway is much after the style of those of the vihāras at Ajaṇṭā.